Allophony

//əˈlɑ.fə.ni// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Variation in the phonetic realizations of a phoneme; the state of a phoneme having multiple allophones. uncountable

Etymology

From allo- + -phony.

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